General Information

The IRIS 22 Conference will be held in Keuruu, Finland on August 7 to August 10,
1999.

The IRIS (Information systems Research seminar In Scandinavia) began in 1978 as an
annual working seminar for Scandinavian researchers in information systems. Over the years
we have been happy to see an increasing number of participants both from within and from
outside Scandinavia. After its first few meetings in Finland, the seminar now alternates
between the Scandinavian countries.

The IRIS Conference has several purposes. The conference is first of all an arena for
Scandinavian researchers to meet and to exchange research ideas and results. It is a place
with a very open intellectual climate based on a uniquely long history of IS research. The
IRIS Conference is one of the oldest annual conferences in the world within information
systems.

IRIS 22 is a working conference. This means that the success of the conference largely
depends on the active involvement of the participants.

This is the second year where the conference is arranged in collaboration with the new
IRIS Association. This is reflected in the ambition that the conference should be a forum
for all IS researchers in the Scandinavian countries and some of their non-Scandinavian
colleagues. There will be keynote addresses, programme statements from new Scandinavian
full professors, parallel sessions with workshops and paper presentations, and working
groups where submitted papers are given critical feed-back.

The conference will focus on research in collaboration with industry. It is our
impression that much Scandinavian IS research is conducted together with industrial
partners. We therefore strongly encourage paper and workshop submissions related to this
area in general, but also with an emphasis of: funding, research approach and methodology,
relationship between university and industry, research results, and implications for IS
research.

Call for Research Papers

Research papers of up to 20 pages are solicited. Authors should use the
provided template (and nothing else) and
submit their paper for review
by using this web site before April 1. All the submissions for review will be
handled through a web based submission system.